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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong>\u00a0 (1985)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 85 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, frightening images, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jack Sholder\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: David Chaskin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Christopher Young\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jacques Haitkin and Christopher Tufty\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 1, 1985 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, Hope Lange, Christie Clark, Marshall Bell, Melinda O. Fee, Tom McFadden, Sydney Walsh.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Box Office: $30 million (US)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0While I like A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong>, Wes Craven\u2019s absence is definitely felt. Nobody was as thrilled as me upon learning that a sequel to NOES was on its way to theaters less than a year after the original came out (at least in my neck of the woods). I saw the trailer before Krush Groove and could barely contain my excitement. I was totally psyched!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I had to wait an extra week to see Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> because it didn\u2019t open in any theaters convenient to me until the following week. I took in a Saturday night show at the Lawrence Park Theater and the joint was packed. It would appear as though Freddy Krueger built up quite a fan base in the months since the first NOES came out. It was a top rental at my favorite video store (the Video Den) throughout the previous summer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Anyway, I was expecting gold from Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> but walked away with bronze instead. It\u2019s a decent enough flick, but director Jack Sholder (Alone in the Dark) takes the story in a rather unusual and unexpected direction. Instead of having Freddy manifest himself in nightmares, he possesses a teenage boy and makes him do his dirty work. The idea of Freddy attacking people in the real world is too much of a deviation from the original premise of killing them in their nightmares. It takes a little something away from the overall effect of the movie. Besides, possession by an evil entity is pretty old hat, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Five years after the events of the first movie, a new family has moved into 1428 Elm Street. Teenage son Jesse Walsh (Patton) now occupies Nancy Thompson\u2019s old room. It doesn\u2019t take long for him to start experiencing terrifying nightmares starring you-know-who. He doesn\u2019t know what to make of them until his girlfriend Lisa (Myers, Hellraiser: Bloodline) finds Nancy\u2019s diary hidden on a shelf in the closet. It chronicles all of her encounters with the gloved one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Why don\u2019t we cut right to the chase? Freddy wants Jesse to kill for him. He then proceeds to take over his body. His first victim is sadistic gym teacher Coach Schneider (Bell, Total Recall). Jesse finds himself at a gay leather bar where he runs into Schneider, a regular customer by the looks of him. They end up back at the high school where Jesse\/Freddy kills the tied-up coach with his finger knives. Jesse\u2019s father (Gulager, The Return of the Living Dead) is convinced his son is on drugs based on his recent behavior. Strange things start to happen like the family\u2019s pet bird exploding into flames. It all comes down to Lisa trying to convince Jesse to fight the fiendish intruder and reclaim his body.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Honestly, there isn\u2019t much to Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> plotwise. There aren\u2019t any major plot twists or surprise revelations. It\u2019s just a standard fight flick with a number in the title. There are a few cool scenes though. My personal favorite is when Freddy claws his way out of Jesse\u2019s body in front of his frightened friend Grady (Rusler, Vamp). The party scene near the end is pretty good too as Freddy takes out a few of the teens in attendance before announcing, \u201cYou are all my children now!\u201d Although he\u2019s not yet the boogeyman comedian fans have come to revere, Freddy gets a few decent one-liners. Upon telling Jesse that he needs his help, he says \u201cYou got the body \u2026. I\u2019ve got the brain\u201d as he rips the skin off his skull and exposes his brain.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0A lot has been made over the years about the homoerotic subtext in Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong>. I can see it. Think about it, the encounter Jesse has with his gym teacher at the gay S&M bar and him fleeing to Grady\u2019s house after aborting an attempt to make out with Lisa. Is all this indicative of Jesse\u2019s latent homosexuality? The fact that the character is played by an openly gay actor makes a strong argument in favor of it. This is one of the more interesting aspects of the movie.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0The visuals and effects are okay, but nowhere near as cool as those in Craven\u2019s movie. Patton delivers a decent performance as Jesse and it\u2019s cool seeing screen vets like Gulager and Hope Lange (Death Wish) in action. As for Englund, he looks like he\u2019s having a ball. How can I knock a performance like that? The score isn\u2019t quite as eerie as that of the original, but the song played over the closing credits serves as an amusing punchline.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Freddy\u2019s Revenge<\/strong> is nicely campy and reasonably fun, but still one of the series\u2019 lesser entries. It doesn\u2019t have the scare factor of the original. The change of premise isn\u2019t quite deadly, but still slightly damaging. It\u2019s a decent sequel that doesn\u2019t quite measure up to the original, but it\u2019s watchable. You can\u2019t say that about too many sequels.<\/p>\r\n A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy\u2019s Revenge\u00a0 (1985)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Line\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 85 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence, frightening images, sexual content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jack Sholder\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: David Chaskin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Christopher Young\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Jacques Haitkin and Christopher Tufty\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 1, 1985 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Englund, Robert Rusler, Clu Gulager, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-sequels-remakes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/A-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-2.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/A-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-2-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C927&ssl=1\")
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